Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3165, Jacob Dusler, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Dusler, Jacob or Duesler, or Dussler, Mathalain
R. 3165 B.L.W. 34584-160-55
or Mathlin
CONTENTS

176. 507 / act Mar 3/53
June 23/55
Mathlin Duplan wid Jacob Duplan
Capt. Joseph House M rs G. Mel
Private Joseph House H 3 H 8 G. Mil a Rev. War
Ohio Ind. July 11/56 Dodge
Vol. D. 159. 2
M rs Duplan Fremont Ohio

State of Ohio. On this 17 day of April Sandusky County ss 1855. Personally appeared before me James H. Lawrence a Justice of the peace in and for said County and State aforesaid. Matthias Dussler, aged 82 years a resident of Sandusky County in the State of Ohio who being duly sworn, according to law, declares that she is the Widow of Jacob Dussler, deceased who was a drummer in the Company commanded Captain by Joseph Hesse in the war of the Revolution. Declared by the United States on the 4th of July 1776. That he was drafted at Montgomery County, in the State of New York. Declarant further states that she must depend upon the Comptroller's Certificate as to the amount of time her said husband served as aforesaid. She further states that she was married to the said Jacob Dussler, in Montgomery County in the State of New York, on the third day of May 1790, by one Philip Kralz, a minister of the Gospel, and that her name before her said marriage was, Matthlin Sitz. That her said husband died at Ontario County in the Town of Seneca in the State of New York, on the 22 nd day of September A. D. 1828, and that she is now a Widow. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land be  her entitled to under the act approved March 3 rd 1855, for the services of Sandusky County Ohio is hereby authorized to prosecute this claim and to issue a Warrant.
Matthlin an Dussler. Mark

We James W. Ennsperger and Ignaz Weiser Residents of Sandusky County in the State of Ohio upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mathlin Dupler in our presence and that we believe from the statements of the appli- cant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
James W. Ennsperger Ignaz Weiser witnesses signatures
The foregoing declaration and affidavit was sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
James B. Francisco A.D.
John J. Dupler was born January 5th 1791. Pallentine Montgomery County N.Y.
Jane Dupler was born November 1st 1793. Pallentine Montgomery County N.Y.
Nancy Dupler was born December 25th 1795. Pallentine Montgomery County N.Y.

William Dufleur, was born January 7 th 1799. Palatine Montgomery County N.Y.
Lydia Dufleur was born January 1 th 1804 Palatine Montgomery County N.Y.
Caty Dufleur was born January 20 1804. Palatine Montgomery County N.Y.
Abram Dufleur was born April 22 nd 1806. Palatine Montgomery County N.Y.
John Dufleur was born March 19 th 1809. Palatine Montgomery County N.Y.
George Dufleur was born July 28 th 1811. Palatine Montgomery County N.Y.
Sary Dufleur was born March 9 th 1814. Farmington Ontario County N.Y.
Adam Dufleur was born April 8 th 1817 Farmington Montgomery County N.Y.
State of Ohio } Sandersky County } ss Be it known that on the 17 day of April 1855. Personally appeared me James R. Francisco a Justice of the peace in and for said County and State aforesaid. William Dufleur of lawful age who being.

duly sworn. according to law. deposeth and saith that the above family record is a correct and genuine copy of the original family record now in his possession of Jacob and Matthias Dugler, and that said record is all that is to be found either public or private, and further deponant saith not.
William Dugler
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written. I certify that William Dugler, who has signed the above affidavit is a well known and respectable person for truth and veracity.
James R. Francisco J.P.
The State of Ohio Sandusky County
ss
On this day personally appeared William Dugler, known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing affidavit, and acknowledged that he executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed. Given under my hand and seal of office this 14th day of May 1855 Keith Greene Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County and state. I certify that the above named James R. Francisco whose genuine signature here appears, is and was at the time of taking the within affidavit a justice of the Peace duly commissioned and qualified, and has all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit that the above Court is a Court of Record having general jurisdiction & that I am not interested in the prosecution of the within claim and am not concerned in its result
Witness my hand & seal of said Court at Fremont this 14th day of May A.D. 1855
Keith Greene Clerk

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written I certify that Leake Wickwire, who has signed the above affidavit is a well known and respectable person for truth and veracity
Sharon Smith N.P.

The State of Ohio } Guadalupe County } I, C. H. Greene Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County and state certify that the within named Warren Smith whose genuine signature there appears is and was at the time of taking the within affidavit a justice of the peace duly commissioned and qualified and that all her official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit, that the above Court of Common Pleas is a court of Record having general jurisdiction & that I am not interested in the prosecution of the within Claim and am not concerned in its result.
Witness my hand & the seal of said Court this 14 th day of May A.D. 1855.
C. H. Greene Clerk
176 207
affidavit Warren Smith Guadalupe Co. Oct 1855
like William Engsler

State of Ohio } Seneca County } ss. On this twenty eighth day of May A D One thou- sand Eight hundred and fifty one personally appeared me William Toll One of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County and state aforesaid. Nathalia Duesler a resi- dent of the township of Reed in said County of Seneca and state of Ohio aged seventy nine years on the twelfth day of August next who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" that she is the widow of Jacob Duesler or Duesler who was a Drummer in the Militia, State troops or Continental (of which she is not positively certain) of the state of New York during the Revolution and when he entered the service resided in the township of Minden in the County of Montgomery in the state of New York that in the year 1779 he volunteered or enlisted into the Company commanded by Captain Joseph House and which Company was under the command of Col. Willet and con- tinued in service as a Drummer in said Captain House Com- pany until the close of the War having served three years or more when he was honorably discharged, that while in service he was most of the time stationed with the rest of the Company at Fort Plank a Military station in said Montgomery County on or near the Mohawk River in said state of New York that John & Andreas Duesler two brothers of her said husband were privates in the same Company with her said husband during said Revolutionary War under Captain Joseph House aforesaid. She further declares that she was married to the said Jacob Duesler or Duesler on the third day of May in the year Seventeen hundred and ninety by Rev. Philip Critz a Common Lutheran Minister in the township of Palatine in said County of Montgomery and state of New York and that her name before her said marriage was Nathalia Sitz that her husband the aforesaid Jacob Duesler or Duesler died on the twelfth day of September in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty Eight in the township of Seneca in the County of Ontario in the

state of New York and that she has not intermarried but continues his widow and that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the services but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated. She further declares that she has in her possession and which is herewith presented a portion of the family record of herself and said husband and which is in the handwriting of her husband the said Jacob Durler which said family record contains the date of the birth of her said Jacob Durler's children with the exception of their eldest child (the leaf on which it was written having been lost) Said record was kept in the possession of said Jacob Durler until his death since which time it has been kept in the possession of this declarant. She further declares that the particulars of the services of her husband the said Jacob Durler she states from her own knowledge she having been born & reared in said County of Montgomery and lived near to said Fort Plank during the time of her said husband's services as aforesaid and no personally acquainted with Captain Joseph House & his family. That she never before made any application for a pension.
Mathalaine Durler
Sworn to & subscribed before me the day & year as above written and I do further certify that the above declarant resides in the extreme portion of said County of Seneca and owing to her bodily infirmity is unable to appear before a Court of Record and is a person entitled to credit.
William Dull Associate Judge of Seneca Common Pleas
State of Ohio,
Seneca County } On this twenty Eighth day of May - A.D. One thousand eight hundred and fifty one personally appeared before me William Dull One of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County & State aforesaid William Durler a resident of the township of Reed in said County aged fifty two years and being first duly sworn according to law on his oath says that he is the fifth child after marriage of the above declarant Mathalaine Durler and her husband the above mentioned Jacob Durler and was born

The above declarant, Mrs. Mathalain Duster claimed that her said husband performed several terms of service during the Revolution as a Private, but supposing his services for three years as a Commoner would entitle her to a full pension, I thought it unnecessary to incorporate any of his services as a private in her declaration.
G. J. D.

in the County of Montgomery in the state of New York where as he has always understood & believes said Jacob and Mathalain Durler were married in the year 1790 that his father the said Jacob Durler was a drummer under Captain Joseph House in the service of the United States during the Revolution for three years as he has often heard said Jacob say and stationed at Fort Plank and that said Jacob Durler had a brother John and Marcus Durler who were in service with him under Captain Joseph House aforesaid said service having been performed during the three latter years of the Revolutionary War - That said Jacob Durler died in the township of Seneca in the County of Ontario in the state of New York on the twelfth day of September in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty eight and left a widow the above named Mathalain Durler who now resides in said township of Reed in the County of Seneca and in the state of Ohio and has not intermarried since the death of her husband the said Jacob Durler and that John Durler who is the eldest child of said Jacob and Mathalain is now sixty years of age and that Jane eldest daughter of said Jacob & Mathalain was born in the year 1793 and that the family record herewith presented by said Mathalain is in the handwriting of her husband the said Jacob Durler. William Durler I now to subscribe the day & year above written.
before me and I do certify that said William Durler is a person of respectability & entitled to credit. William Joll Vice Judge of Seneca Common Pleas
State of Ohio } Seneca County } ss. On this day personally appeared Catherine Durler a resident of the township of Reed in said county of Seneca state of Ohio aged forty two years and being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath say that she has been personally acquainted with Mathalain Durler who has subscribed the foregoing affidavit for twenty six years last past and that she is the widow of Jacob Durler who was a reputable soldier of the Revolution.

in the town of Seneca in the County of Ontario in the State on the twelfth day of September in the year Eighteen hundred twenty eight, that this affiant was acquainted with him at time of his death and attended his funeral that he left a widow said Mathalain Gessler who has not intermarried since her death & who now resides in the aforesaid township, of Seneca Seneca County State of Ohio & is reputed to be seventy nine years of age in the month of August next that affiant is personally acquainted with John Gessler the eldest son & child of said Jacob & Mathalain Gessler and that he is now sixty years of age
Sworn to & subscribed before me the Catharine Gessler day & year above written and I do
certify that the above deponent is a person entitled to credit & I further certify that the interlineation of the words "of Seneca" in the above affidavit was made before it was signed by the affiant.
William Bell Associate Judge of Seneca Common Pleas
The State of Ohio Seneca County, ss
I, Henry Ebbert Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County of Seneca do hereby certify that William Bell is a judge before whom the above and foregoing Affidavits were made as one of the Associate Judges of said County duly commissioned and qualified, to all whose Official Acts as such Judge full faith and credit are due and ought to be given.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Tiffin in said County this 21 st day of May A.D. 1857 Henry Ebbert, Clerk.

V.D 34.584
} Mrs. Amos
No 14.434
Marthalain Dusler widow of Jacob Ohio
Act 7 th July 1838
E. J. Smith. Nov 7-1857
3165

Im Jahr 1799 7. Jany d. ist eben Johann Willem Zur Welt ge booren und ge Tauft und die Tauf- ge Zeigen Namen frit rich barn und sein frau Elizabeth
Willem Dufner

Im Jahr 1797
der 10 febr. Mary ist hier ein dog der geboren. Zum Will geborn und als dann auch zum Er den ge stat Ed
George Dugler born 1811 28 of July 1814 Born 9 March

Mano
May her Sails the Bus increases people that increases rate to guide many of the meners in close religious by and ing B Characters
Jacob Dufren

1 ten Jahr 1800
Den 22sten April ist hier mein Sohn:
Abraham zur Welt gekommen und ge tauft und die Taufge Leigen
waren Adam Peigen und Maria so fern Der
Abraham Dufte D s s s

Im Jahr 1804 d.
2 Jonissari ist mein
Tochter Catharina Zur
Welt geboren und getauft und di
taufte Ligen Ha- ren färbte barm und
Catharin Walrath
Cat Dreyer Johanna Walrath

Im Jahr 1820
den 4. August ist mein Dochter Leila zur Welt geboren und ge- tauft und die Taufe ge-
langte Namen
Wilhelm Borscher und
Goethezeit
Leila Dufour
1820

Im Jahr 1793 die ersten die bekannt ist nun doch der spani- sche Staat gebrannt und er läuft um Vierundzwanzig Stunden durch sich und Christ Stern et Luf. der Ja ne Luf

Im Jahr 1795 die
25 Jun  Dez hier ist ein
Landstift Tochter Annege born und ge tauft am di
Tag ge Leigen Namen Jacob Klock Jan und
Asia Roth
Im Jahr 1795
Et na Duf her

Elizur D. Aug. 1. 1857
Com of Pensions D. S. D.
Enclosed I send you the application of Nathaniel Ducle for revolutionary pension under act of Aug 7 1838. I am employed as her agent in the matter and you will please inform me when examined the result of the investigation.
Very Respectfully Your obed Servt G. T. Smith
One corner of the above paper was burned by a spark from the candle when copying & since the papers were made G. T. S.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
3165
P. O.
Martha Ann Rusler
Service: wid of Frank
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

William Dufur Fresno H
Malheur Dufur 1/6/57
Chg. to Mr. Borden Mar 11/56
Rep to Mr. Borden May 12/56

Tremont Sandusky Co Ohio March 26 th 1856
Dear Sir, the claim of Mathalain Dugston for County land which was received June 23 rd 1855 being No 146,507 under the act of March 3 rd 1855 has not as yet been attended to and the reason I know not if therefore you will inform me or send the warrant the old lady is quite old and she is quite impatient she is poor and has no resources whatever to live only in the old charity of her mother's son I hope you will pardon me for writing or troubling you with this short note.
I am respectfully yours
J. P. Waldo
Commissioner
W m Dugston

Hon L P Waldo
FILE
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Fremont Sandusky Co Ohio June 19 1835
Sir
Enclosed you will please find a paper for my mother's claim to bounty land which is as near right as the case requires and also the proof of my father's services in the Revolutionary war should you require more proof please write to me if you please
Hon L P Waldo Respectfully yours
William Dupler
Commissioner of Pensions

State of New-York, COMPROLLER'S OFFICE.
Albany, May 5. 1851.
I Hereby Certify, That on searching the Records in this office for the Registry of Certificates issued in pursuance of a law, passed April 27, 1784, entitled "An Act for the settlement of the pay of Levies and Militia for their services in the late war, and for other purposes therein mentioned," I find the following, viz:
   NAMES. NO. OF BOOK. NO. OF CERTIFICATE. DATE. £ S. D. RANK AND NAME OF COMPANY OFFICER. RANK AND NAME OF FIELD OFFICER.     Jacob Dusler Private 3 11.024 Nov. 21. 1782 6 9 1 Capt Joseph House Lt. Col. Sam l Clyde.   Jacob Dusler Private 4 18.649 Spt r 4. 1780 2 11 6 " Rudolph Rock Lt. Col. Peter Wagoner   £ 9 " 7                    
I have examined the Rolls for the items above set forth, and find them to be correct.
Chas. Haswell Clerk.
Sam l L. Mitchell Comptroller.